UCL

Cunynghams

St Kitts | St Mary Cayon

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
Mortgage Holder
John Knight I of Lea Castle
- 1743 [EY] → Owner
Robert Cunyngham of Braidland and Craig
1761 [EA] - → Legatee
Elizabeth Philadelphia Pearce Hall (née Cunyngham)

Elizabeth Philadlephia Pearce Hall nee Cunyngham received a legacy of life interest in £2000 secured on the estate of her brother Robert Cunyngham of 1761.

1766 [EA] - → Previous owner
Robert Cunyngham
1817 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
Anthony Cunyngham senior
1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Anthony Cunyngham

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 333 (Cunynghams)
£1,978 5S 2D

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Anthony Cunningham Esq, owner; returned by John Browne, attorney and manager; surname also spelt Cunyngham.

 
T 71/253 422-425
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Anthony Cunyngham Esq, owner; returned by John Browne, attorney and manager.

 
T 71/255 20
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
[Name] Cunyngham's  
 

Return of Anthony Cunningham Esq, owner; returned by Samuel Woodley Wattley, manager; the name of the estate is listed in index but not in the entry; surname is spelt Cunyngham in the index.

 
T 71/256 101-102
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 131(Tot)  
[Name] Cunyngham's  
 

Return of the estate of Anthony Cunyngham Jr, owner; returned by Anthony P. Pogson; 8 enslaved people acquired 'from the public'. St. Mary, Cayon

 
T 71/258 37-38
1828
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 435  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St Mary Cayon as an estate of 435 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 223 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Anthony Cunynghame.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Anthony Cunyngham, owner; returned by Hugh Fleck, attorney.

 
T 71/259 38-39
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Anthony Cunyngham, owner; returned by Anthony P Pogson, attorney.

 
T 71/260 37